Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

A great man is always willing to be little.