If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.