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

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

All true work is sacred.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.