A Man's Hope Measures His Civilization. The

The Individual Cannot Think And Communicate His Thought, The Governor And Legislator Cannot Act Effectively Or Frame His Laws Without Words, And The Solidity And Validity Of These Words Is In The Care Of The Damned And Despised Litterati...when Their Very Medium, The Very Essence Of Their Work, The Application Of Word To Thing Goes Rotten, I.e. Becomes Slushy And Inexact, Or Excessive Or Bloated, The Whole Machinery Of Social And Of Individual Thought And Order Goes To Pot.

The Book Shd. Be A Ball Of Light In One's Hand.

Colloquial Poetry Is To The Real Art As The Barber's Wax Dummy Is To Sculpture.

Properly, We Should Read For Power. Man Reading Should Be Man Intensely Alive. The Book Should Be A Ball Of Light In One's Hand.

No Man Understands A Deep Book Until He Has Seen And Lived At Least Part Of Its Contents.