If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

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.