Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Literature is news that stays news.

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

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

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.