6 quotes found
“The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.”
“Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.”
“We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.”
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renowned doses, so as to paralyze his faculties for...”
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I do not myself pretend to know. But since it has been proved that by an extraordina...”
“The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know,...”
