The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
What then is your duty? What the day demands.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.