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.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

The world remains ever the same.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.