"To pore upon a book, to seek..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.”

“This thought is as a death.”

“What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

“There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.”

“The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.”

“To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.”

“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”

“Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.”