Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Many make the household but only one the home.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.