Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Fantastic shadows of birds

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.