Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.