Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Idleness induces caprice.

Not a deed would he do,

Not a word would he utter,

Till he's weighed its relation

To plain bread and butter.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgement.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

How little inventiveness there is in man,

Grave copier of copies.

Not what we give, but what we share,
For the gift without the giver is bare.

True freedom is to share

All the chains our brothers wear.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.