And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.