“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

“The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.”

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.”

“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”

“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.”