“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”

“In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle.”

“Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.”

“Bhagat Singh revered Lajpat Rai as a leader. But he would not spare even Lajpat Rai, when, during the last years of his life, Lajpat Rai turned to communal politics. He then launched a political-ideological campaign against him. Because Lajpat Rai was a respected leader, he would not publicly use harsh words of criticism against him. And so he printed as a pamphlet Robert Browning’s famous poem, ‘The Lost Leader,’ in which Browning criticizes Wordsworth for turning against liberty. The poem begins with the line ‘Just for a handful of silver he left us.’ A few more of the poem’s lines were: ‘We shall march prospering, not thro’ his presence; Songs may inspirit us, not from his lyre,’ and ‘Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more.’ There was not one word of criticism of Lajpat Rai. Only, on the front cover, he printed Lajpat Rai’s photograph!”

“I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.”

“God is the perfect poet.”

“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”

“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”