Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, inter…

His character was an extraordinarily mixed one, but there was almost nothing in it that you can put your finger on and call bad, and I believe that even Gandhi…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…