[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

It is the Mass the matters.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Few men can afford to be angry.