Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?
In dreams begin responsibilities.
O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause…
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.