Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Biography is the only true history.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

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

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.