As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.