The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.