Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

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.

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.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.