Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.