Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.