And Those Whom Once My Song Had

No Skill Or Art Is Needed To Grow Old; The Trick Is To Endure It.

It Used To Happen, And Still Happens, To Me To Take No Pleasure In A Work Of Art At The First Sight Of It, Because It Is Too Much For Me; But If I Suspect Any Merit In It, I Try To Get At It; And Then I Never Fail To Make The Most Gratifying Discoveries--to Find New Qualities In The Work Itself And New Faculties In Myself.

If A Man Writes A Book, Let Him Set Down Only What He Knows. I Have Guesses Enough Of My Own.

Hypotheses Are Lullabies For Teachers To Sing Their Students To Sleep.

Nothing Is More Terrible Than To See Ignorance In Action.