A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.