Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.