The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

All students can learn.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.