The Library is a wilderness of books.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.