Fruitless Striving Breeds Less Despair Than Inaction.

Growth Provides Novel Experiences For Youth; Decay The Same, Alas, For Age.

Civilization Creates Discontents; Barbarism Creates Quick Endings.

First Literature Came To Refer Only To Itself, The Literary Theory.

Nature Often Seems Like An Idea That Has Had Its Day.

In New Situations, I Look Carefully At Appearances. In Familiar Ones, I Glance.