Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

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.

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

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

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.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.