Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.