Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

All truths wait in all things.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.