A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.