Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.