If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Time itself is an element.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

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

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.