Words, however, are things.

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.