If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schellin...g or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out [...a] line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent..., of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have trailed the pike of composition work and directed the small-sword play of debate. I have carried the musket on the long his...torical trail from Beowulf to Browning, and now, after many years of happy duty in the pleasant Elizabethan country, I am still serving, with such effect as may be, the big guns of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »