There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.