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

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

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

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

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.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.