Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
There is no trustworthy evidence as to a god's absolute existence.
Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is.
I perceive that the race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Though he knows that knowledge is imperfect, he trusts it alone. If he takes, therefore, the less delight in metaphysics, he takes the more in physics.
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.