5 Quotes by William Cory

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms… And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.

Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.

All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.

Your chilly stars I can forgo,This warm kind world is all I know.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.