To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.