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

small talk comes from small bones

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

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.

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

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight