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.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.