The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!