The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I have expressed some ideas that point to the center; I have saluted the dawn in my way, from my point of view. He who knows the way should do the same, in his way, and from his point of view.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.