Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.