Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

To make something you have to be something.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.