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.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.