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

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.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

To make something you have to be something.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.