"A good style must have an air..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.”

“Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.”

“Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt”

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”

“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.”

“Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”