If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.