In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

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

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.