The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my read more

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Thinking men cannot be ruled.

Thinking men cannot be ruled.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.