On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.