Love Is Blind; Couch Not His Eyes.

The Art Of Writing Is Not, As Many Seem To Imagine, The Art Of Bringing Fine Phrases Into Rhythmical Order, But The Art Of Placing Before The Reader Intelligible Symbols Of The Thoughts And Feelings In The Writer's Mind.

Roger Bacon, A Disciple Of The Arabs, Also Insisted On The Primary Necessity Of Mathematics, Without Which No Other Science Can Be Known; Yet By Mathematics It Is Clear That He Meant Something Very Different From What We Mean, Including Under That Head Even Dancing, Singing, Gesticulation, And Performance On Musical Instruments.

Imagination Is Not The Exclusive Appanage Of Artists, But Belongs In Varying Degrees To All Men.

Murder, Like Talent, Seems Occasionally To Run In Families.

Except In The Rare Cases Of Great Dynamic Thinkers Whose Thoughts Are As Turning-points In The History Of Our Race, It Is By Style That Writers Gain Distinction, By Style They Secure Their Immortality.