I do think better of womankind that to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. 1.82K
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not. 2.27K
Stop and consider! Life is but a day; a fragile dewdrop on its perilous way from a tree’s summit. 688
But this is human life: the war, the deeds, the disappointment, the anxiety, imagination’s struggles, far and nigh, all human. 668
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasure should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. 590
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. 627
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. 645
Novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence. 677