Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!