I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.