The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Patriotism ruins history.