Be Attentive, Feel Nothing In Vain, Measure

Astronomy Is Perhaps The Science Whose Discoveries Owe Least To Chance, In Which Human Understanding Appears In Its Whole Magnitude, And Through Which Man Can Best Learn How Small He Is.

Cultivate That Kind Of Knowledge Which Enables Us To Discover For Ourselves In Case Of Need That Which Others Have To Read Or Be Told Of.

He Who Is Enamored Of Himself Will At Least Have The Advantage Of Being Inconvenienced By Few Rivals.

What Makes Our Poetry So Contemptible Nowadays Is Its Paucity Of Ideas. If You Want To Be Read, Invent. Who The Devil Wouldn't Like To Read Something New?

A Man Always Writes Absolutely Well Whenever He Writes In His Own Manner, But The Wigmaker Who Tries To Write Like Gellert ... Writes Badly.