Taste Is The Literary Conscience

National Literature Begins With Fables And Ends With Novels.

A Part Of Kindness Consists In Loving People More Than They Deserve.

What Can One Possibly Introduce Into A Mind That Is Already Full, And Full Of Itself?

Old Age Takes From The Man Of Intellect No Qualities Save Those That Are Useless To Wisdom.

The Ordinary True, Or Purely Real, Cannot Be The Object Of The Arts. Illusion On A Ground Of Truth,--that Is The Secret Of The Fine Arts.