the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make… - Romain Rolland

و جان کریستف به‌سان آن چکاوک بود. می‌دانست که دمی دیگر، و بسا دفعات دیگر، فرو خواهد افتاد. ولی همچنین می‌دانست که باز به طرز خستگی‌ناپذیر میان آتش بالا خواهد رفت و سرود خود را، که برای کسانی که در زیر هستند سخن از روشنائی آسمان‌ها می‌گوید، خواهد خواند.

Most men die at twenty or thirty; thereafter they are only reflections of themselves: for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive.

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.