Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.