The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

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.

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

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.