We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "up" of heaven and the "down" of hell to be more or less descriptive.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.