The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.