Imitation cannot go above its model.

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.