The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.