No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.