Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

To Be is to live with God.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

Music causes us to think eloquently.