The Hour-hand Of Life.

What A Person Is Begins To Betray Itself When His Talent Weakens--when He Stops Showing What He Can Do. Talent, Too, Is Ornamentation, And Ornamentation, Too, Is A Hiding Place.

A Good Writer Possesses Not Only His Own Spirit But Also The Spirit Of His Friends.

So Live Your Life Of Obedience And Of War! What Matter About Long Life! What Warrior Wisheth To Be Spared!

The Aphorism, The Apothegm, In Which I Am The First Among The Germans To Be A Master, Are The Forms Of “eternity”; It Is My Ambition To Say In Ten Sentences What Everyone Else Says In A Book — What Everyone Else Does Not Say In A Book.

And You Tell Me, Friends, That There Is No Disputing Taste And Tasting? But All Life Is A Dispute Over Taste And Tasting!