Sublime

The courage he had had was in no sense his own—he had only had courage, not been courageous;

from the land of Jordan

In his important book After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre famously says, “I cannot answer the question, ‘What ought I to do?’ unless I first answer the question, ‘Of which story am I a part?’”

good blood and a good disposition. One

What luck for a child to meet such a soul when she is young. What luck for a country to have a Mark Twain in its heart.

a realistic critic quoted German authorities to prove that Hamlet had a particular psycho-pathological abnormality, which is admittedly nowhere mentioned in the play. The critic was bewitched; he was thinking of Hamlet as a real man, with a background behind him three dimensions deep–which does not exist in a looking-glass.

Falstaff the great mountain of English laughter and English sentimentalism,

"The noble hart that harbours vertuous thought And is with childe of glorious great intent, Can never rest, until it forth have brought Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent."