And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

Earth has not anything to show more fair.