The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.