But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

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

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

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.

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