Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.