412
There are many thoughts that come only from general culture, like buds from green branches. When roses bloom, you see them blooming everywhere.
413
Lucidity is a due distribution of light and shade.’ Hamann.
414
A man who has no acquaintance with foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
415
We must remember that there are many men who, without being productive, are anxious to say something important, and the results are most curious.
416
Deep and earnest thinkers are in a difficult position with regard to the public.
417
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
418
An author can show no greater respect for his public than by never bringing it what it expects, but what he himself thinks right and proper in that stage of his own and others’ culture in which for the time he finds himself.