There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.