To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.