Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.