Sublime

The majority of men are poets, only they happen to be bad poets.

Nobody understands the romance of Rome, and why she rose afterwards to a representative leadership that seemed almost fated and fundamentally natural.

He was one of those to whom nature has given the desire without the power of artistic expression.

I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.

Nature puts on a disguise when she speaks to every man;

It may be my literary fancy, but somehow I feel that it ought to mean something."

A discovery is an incurable disease;

Come down to the nearest decent inhabitable pub. This is a case for beer.”

It is not natural to see man as a natural product. It is not common sense to call man a common object of the country or the seashore. It is not seeing straight to see him as an animal. It is not sane. It sins against the light; against that broad daylight of proportion which is the principle of all reality.