The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simpliciti….

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole..

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats..

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn..

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can..

The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on ….

Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must e….

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world..

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw..

Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can ….

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti..