Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

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

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.