Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.