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.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.