文学是耐心的艺术，无论对写的人还是读的人都是如此。

Money is concerned only with what is common to all: it asks for the exchange value, it reduces all quality and individuality to the question: How much?

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I'm not afraid of being surpassed because I will keep improving.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.