The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.