How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

A great mind must be androgynous.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.