Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.