Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.