This Is The Highest Wisdom That I

It Is Commonly The Personal Character Of A Writer Which Gives Him His Public Significance. It Is Not Imparted By His Genius. Napoleon Said Of Corneille, "were He Living I Would Make Him A King;" But He Did Not Read Him. He Read Racine, Yet He Said Nothing Of The Kind Of Racine.

All Truly Wise Thoughts Have Been Thought Already Thousands Of Times; But To Make Them Truly Ours, We Must Think Them Over Again Honestly, Until They Take Root In Our Personal Experience.

How Can We Know Ourselves? Never By Reflection, But Only Through Action. Begin At Once To Do Your Duty And Immediately You Will Know What Is Inside You.

Art Is A Mediator Of The Unspeakable.

The World Cannot Do Without Great Men, But Great Men Are Very Troublesome To The World.