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

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Literature is news that stays news.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.