We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own liv…

- Jones Very

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it woul…

- Jones Very

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

- Jones Very

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for whic…

- Jones Very

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

- Jones Very