A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

White founts falling in the courts of the sun, / And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.