There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
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