Genius is power, talent is applicability.

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.