Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin. We forget that even cowardice may call for our most lenient judgment, if it spring from innate infirmity.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.