What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.