Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

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.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love