Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

He can not go lower than the dust of the earth for the matter of life; and for us the main interest of our origin must lie in the spiritual domain. Biography
Massey's parents were poor. The scholars were unanimous in dismissing the claims.

He was born near Tring Hertfordshire in England. Gerald Massey (29 May 1828 – 29 October 1907) was an English poet and self-educated Egyptologist.