"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
"No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher."
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
"Silence does not always mark wisdom."
"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves..."
"But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may ..."
"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."
"What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in ..."
"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink."