Grimm detests method; according to him, it is the pedantry of letters.

Those who can only arrange, would do as well to remain idle; those who can only get instruction from what has been arranged, would do as well to remain ignorant.

What necessity is there for so many people knowing anything else besides their trade?
They said a great many things that I don't report to you, and they would be saying things still, if the Abbe Galiani had not interrupted them: 'My friends, I remember a fable: pray listen to it.

One day, in the depths of a forest, a dispute arose between a Nightingale and a Cuckoo.
Each prizes its own gift.

What bird, said the Cuckoo, has a song so easy, so simple, so natural, so measured, as mine?
What bird, said the Nightingale, has a song sweeter, more varied, more brilliant, more touching, than mine?
_The Cuckoo:_ I say few things, but they are things of weight, of order, and people retain them.
_The Nightingale:_ I love to use my voice, but I am always fresh, and I never weary.