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

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.

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 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.

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

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

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.