The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.