“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”

“Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.”

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

“Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.”

“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.”

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”