Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.