That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.