He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

One is oneself a fine consequence.