“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

“The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.”

“A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.”

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“Is it not the true scholar the only true master?”