Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Only the soul that loves is happy

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Do thine own task, and be therewith content.