Sublime

For us in England something will have perished which our fathers valued all the more because they hardly troubled to name it;

from the land of Jordan

Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

England achieved, at the beginning of her modern history, that one thing human imagination will always find heroic–the story of a small nationality.

This is the only final greatness of a man; that he does for all the world what all the world cannot do for itself. Dickens, I believe, did it.

“As the tree falleth, so shall it lie,”

The command of Christ is impossible, but it is not insane; it is rather sanity preached to a planet of lunatics.