Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.