Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.Life Poetry
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?Life Pain Soul Intelligence
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.Music Poetry Book
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.Sadness
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.Romantic
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter 
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. 
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. 
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know 
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? 
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. 
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. 
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. 
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.