Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.