William Johnson Cory

“You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts.”

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.”

“I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.”

“Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”

“At the head of all the arts and sciences, the master-art is the art of reflection.”