Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
When I set out for Lyonnesse, And starlight lit my lonesomeness.
To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience
With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.
For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.
Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.