As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

All perishable is but an allegory.