The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

Thought will not work except in silence.