Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

One must be an inventor to read well.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.