Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.