The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.