"Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done."

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."

"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach."

"I mean, music totally comes from your soul."

"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."