Invention breeds invention.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.