A little integrity is better than any career.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

Only poetry inspires poetry.