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A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense. - [Poets] Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame. - [Poetry] The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none. - [Historians] One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope. - Alexander Pope [Quotations] [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." - Obiter Dicta [Motherhood] As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. - Obiter Dicta--Emerson [Painting : Proverbial Phrases] History is a pageant, not a philosophy. - Obiter Dicta--The Muse of History [History] It is the Mass the matters. - What, Then, Did Happen at the Reformation?, published in "Nineteenth Century", Apr., 1896, answered, July, 1896 [Worship]
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