Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Every great change is simple.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.