It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.