To Act Is Easy, To Think Is

If One Doesn't Know One's Own Country, One Doesn't Have Standards For Foreign Countries.

Rash, Inexperienced Youth Holds Itself A Chosen Instrument, And Allows Itself Unbounded License.

What Dazzles, For The Moment Spends Its Spirit; Whats Genuine, Shall Posterity Inherit.

It Used To Happen, And Still Happens, To Me To Take No Pleasure In A Work Of Art At The First Sight Of It, Because It Is Too Much For Me; But If I Suspect Any Merit In It, I Try To Get At It; And Then I Never Fail To Make The Most Gratifying Discoveries--to Find New Qualities In The Work Itself And New Faculties In Myself.

Not Art And Science Only, But Patience Will Be Required For The Work.