God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Light tomorrow with today!
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Since when was genius found respectable?
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.