Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.