No individual life can be truly prosperous, passed . . . in the midst of men who suffer. - Matthew Arnold

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?' He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind.