Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.