“In dreams begins responsibility.”
“And say my glory was I had such friends.”
“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
“Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.”
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”
“The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.”
“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”
“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
“The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all — the colleges I mean — like an opera.”
“I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
“Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
“To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.”
“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”
“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”