Sublime

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

the fact that there is nothing so really practical and urgent as ideal philosophy.

he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.

He was perfectly right, of course, when one comes to think of it, in holding that it was physically impossible for a street to defeat a city.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.