Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do read more

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Necessity has no law.

Necessity has no law.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"

Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]

Stern is the visage of necessity.
[Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]

Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
[Lat., Aequa lege necessitas
Sortitur insignes et imos.]

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have read more

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.