The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. - John Keats

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love — but if you should deny me the thousand and first — ‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings
That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.