Those who think, and they are, I imagine, the vast majority, that any one who can read and write, who knows something of arithmetic, geography, and history, is competent to educate young children, have not even the most elementary notions of what education is.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding

"In the chorus No. 16, I added the German words 'Fallt nieder auf euer Angesicht,' in pencil, because I thought that the English translation, 'adoring,' etc., did not express the meaning entirely, nor did it render the rhythm of the German, which is still more to be felt by the bar I have added before the pause.
— from The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards

Not the God alone, I see His ministers; I see, diffused In radiant orders, essences sublime, Of various offices, of various plume, In heavenly liveries, distinctly clad, 880 Azure, green, purple, pearl, or downy gold, Or all commix’d; they stand, with wings outspread, Listening to catch the Master’s least command, And fly through nature, ere the moment ends; Numbers innumerable!—well conceived By Pagan, and by Christian!
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young