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

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.