Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

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.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.