A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.