To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.