Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature.
Property is an intellectual production.
The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor. Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world.