Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Work alone is noble.
He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
History, a distillation of rumour.
Be not a slave of words.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Speech is silvern silence is golden.
Give me a man who sings at his work.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
