A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

What we call results are beginnings.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.