There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.