My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.