Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.