The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

One may quote till one compiles.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

To get someone's attentionsay three words with compassion.Say "I love you", more than me, like the river loves the sea.

Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

You think I’m perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself