To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.