What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

No institution will be better than the institutor.