Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.