Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

Wars are made to make debt.

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.