Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.