The Book Written Against Fame And Learning

It Never Was In The Power Of Any Man Or Any Community To Call The Arts Into Being. They Come To Serve His Actual Wants, Never To Please His Fancy.

Are You Not Scared By Seeing That The Gypsies Are More Attractive To Us Than The Apostles?

We Are The Children Of Many Sires, And Every Drop Of Blood In Us In Its Turn Betrays Its Ancestor.

A Man Must Ride Alternately On The Horses Of His Private And His Public Nature.

The Soul Raised Over Passion Beholds Identity And Eternal Causation, Perceives The Self-existance Of Truth And Right, And Calms Itself With Knowing That All Things Go Well.