Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
Six years-six little years-six drops of time.
The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.