All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall Quote

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
- Barry Cornwall Quote

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
- Barry Cornwall Quote