Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.