There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

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

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

One must keep repeating the Truth.