The Publication Of A Book Only Brings

Try To Keep Your Soul Young And Quivering Right Up To Old Age.

The Artist Vocation Is To Send Light Into The Human Heart.

Living For Oneself Is A Bad Thing. The Keenest Intellectual Pleasure Comes From Being Able To Return To The Self After Being Absent From It For A Spell. But Living All The Time Inside The Self, That Most Tyrannical, Demanding And Capricious Of Companions - No, One Shouldn't Do It.

Faith Is An Excitement And An Enthusiasm: It Is A Condition Of Intellectual Magnificence To Which We Must Cling As To A Treasure, And Not Squander On Our Way Through Life In The Small Coin Of Empty Words, Or In Exact And Priggish Argument.

You See What Stupid Folk My Publishers Are; But They Are All Alike.