What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.

It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

There is not a dream which may not come true, if we have the energy which makes, or chooses, our own fate.... It is only the dreams of those light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.