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.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.