The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Intemperance is the only vulgarity.