Conduct Is Three-fourths Of Our Life And

Ah! Two Desires Toss About The Poet's Feverish Blood; One Drives Him To The World Without, And One To Solitude.

The Uppermost Idea With Hellenism Is To See Things As They Really Are; The Uppermost Ideas With Hebraism Is Conduct And Obedience.nothing Can Do Away With This Ineffaceable Difference. The Greek Quarrel With The Body And Its Desires Is, That They Hinder Right Thinking; The Hebrew Quarrel With Them Is, That They Hinder Right Acting.

Indeed There Can Be No More Useful Help For Discovering What Poetry Belongs To The Class Of The Truly Excellent, And Can Therefore Do Us Most Good, Than To Have Always In One's Mind Lines And Expressions Of The Great Masters, And To Apply Them As A Touchstone To Other Poetry.

Years Hence, Perhaps, May Dawn An Age, More Fortunate, Alas! Than We, Which Without Hardness Will Be Sage, And Gay Without Frivolity.

Hither And Thither Spins The Wind-borne Mirroring Soul, A Thousand Glimpses Wins, And Never Sees A Whole.