Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.