“What thou lovest well remains, ”

“What thou lovest well remains. The rest is dross.”

“What thou lovest well remains,the rest is drossWhat thou lov’st well shall not be reft from theeWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage”

“what thou lovest well isthy true heritagewhat thou lovest well shallnot be reft from thee”

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.”

“Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.”

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”