There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.