Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.