The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.