“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
