If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.