Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. - Matthew Arnold

How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again — thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!

All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! — And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?

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