“The Moon for all her light and graceHas never learned to know her place.”

“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”

“I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”

“As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.”

“The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.”

“Would the cook were o' my mind!”

“God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.”

“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.”

“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”

“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.”

“The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”

“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”

“There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.”

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster”

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

“Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.”