Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.