Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.