Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Any place you love is the world to you.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.