If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

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.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.