The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

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.

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.

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

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The solution of every problem is another problem