Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

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.

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

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.