A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

The devil has his elect.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.