In Religious Matters A Traveller Loses Nothing

A Book , Once It Is Printed And Published, Becomes Individual. It Is By Its Publication As Decisively Severed From Its Author As In Parturition A Child Is Cut Off From Its Parent. The Book "means" Thereafter, Perforce, Both Grammatically And Actually, Whatever Meaning This Or That Reader Gets Out Of It.

Man Alone Of Animals Plays The Ape To His Dreams .

I Have Followed After The Truth, Across This Windy Planet Upon Which Every Person Is Nourished By One Or Another Lie.

A Manpossessesnothing Certainlysavea Brief Loanof His Own Body.

At All Events, I Do Not Mean To Leave It Unaltered.