In such a world as this, with such ugly possibilities hanging over us all, there is but one anchor which will hold, and that is utter trust in God; let us keep that, and we may yet get to our graves without misery though not without sorrow.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Welcome, wild North-easter! / Shame it is to see / Odes to every zephyr; / Ne’er a verse to thee.

Lovers of men; neither broad-browed Zeus, nor Pallas Athene.

Geology and botany Geology and botany We'll flog and troll in strid and hole.

Health to grantas chivalry, wisely finding day by day.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left undressed on earth.

Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever; do noble things, not dream them all day long.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell