Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.