Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.