I Find My Past In My Present,

Would Shakespeare And Raleigh Have Done Their Best, Would That Galaxy Have Shone So Bright In The Heavens Had There Been No Elizabeth On The Throne?

Without A Mythology, Faith Is Impersonal And Heartless.

The Books That Charmed Us In Youth Recall The Delight Ever Afterwards; We Are Hardly Persuaded There Are Any Like Them, Any Deserving Our Equal Affections.

If The Ancients Left Us Ideas, To Our Credit Be It Spoken That We Moderns Are Building Houses For Them -- Structures Which Neither Plato Nor Archimedes Had Dreamed Possible.

One Must Espouse Some Pursuit, Taking It Kindly At Heart And With Enthusiasm.