In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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