The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature

book can be important, whoever it was that wrote it.

But in regard to the form, the peculiar character of a book depends upon the _person_ who wrote it. It may treat of matters which are accessible to everyone and well known; but it is the way in which they are treated, what it is that is thought about them, that gives the

book its value; and this comes from its author. If,...