Good writers are of necessity rare.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.