True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.