Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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

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

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.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.