All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things..

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understandi….

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works..

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves..

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night..

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars..

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of pros….

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned..

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows..

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of go….

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!.

I am a part of all whom I have met..

The greater the man the greater the courtesy..

For man is man and master of his fate..

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die..

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with co….

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for ….

O hard, when love and duty clash!.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice..

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies..