“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”

“Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”

“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”