Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!