We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more. - Alfred Edward Housman

Oh, when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

A man who possesses common sense and the use of reason must not expect to learn from treatises or lectures on textual criticism anything that he could not, with leisure and industry, find out for himself. What the lectures and treatises can do for him is to save him time and trouble by presenting to him immediately considerations which would in any case occur to him sooner or later.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.