A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

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.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.