Occupation: Literary Critic Birth: May 12, 1855 Death: January 2, 1930
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith..
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth..
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love..
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment..
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing bo….
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language ….
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes..
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it..
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does..
The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart..
Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify….
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of til….
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come t….
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment..
If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine….
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to l….
You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas..
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and gramm….
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure..
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech..
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is to….