Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

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