The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.