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

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

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.

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

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

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

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.