Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.