After all it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them it had better be life.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction...
If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then...
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
