I Wish The Crowd To Feel Itself

My Counsel Is, To Force Nothing, And Rather To Trifle And Sleep Away All Unproductive Days And Hours, Than On Such Days To Compose Something That Will Afterwards Give No Pleasure.

When Intelligent And Sensible People Despise Knowledge In Their Old Age, It Is Only Because They Have Asked Too Much Of It And Of Themselves.

We All Of Us Live Upon The Past, And Through The Past We Are Destroyed.

Few Are Open To Conviction, But The Majority Of Men Are Open To Persuasion

One Of The Most Striking Signs Of The Decay Of Art Is The Intermixing Of Different Genres.