Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.