the result of my mission was just this: I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that some inferior men were really wis… - Charles William Eliot

Yet such persons are, without us, what the ideal of perfection is within us: models not for being imitated, but for being aimed at.

And on the roof was a little goat belonging to Oyvind; it was kept there that it might not wander away, and Oyvind bore leaves and grass up to it. One fine day the goat leaped down and was off to the cliff; it went straight up and soon stood where it had never been before. Oyvind did not see the goat when he came out in the afternoon, and thought at once of the fox.

To that intent; but yet let Truth be free
To make her sallies upon thee and me,
Which way it pleases God. For who knows how,
Better than he that taught us first to Plow,
To guide our Mind and Pens for his Design? And he makes base things usher in Divine.