If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.