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.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.