Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

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

What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

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

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

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.