To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
Too much is unwholesome.
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.