ليس لنا أن نتطلع إلى هدفٍ يلوح لنا باهتاً من بعد ، وإنما علينا أن ننجز ما بين أيدينا من عمل واضح بيِّن.

“Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.”

“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, …”

“May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was th…”

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me”