Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer’s prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer’d, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.