Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.