Society Lives By Faith, And Develops By

Self-interest Is An Inexhaustible Source Of Convenient Illusions. The Number Of Beings Who Wish To See Truly Is Extraordinarily Small.

Composition Is A Process Of Combination, In Which Thought Puts Together Complementary Truths, And Talent Fuses Into Harmony The Most Contrary Qualities Of Style. So That There Is No Composition Without Effort, Without Pain Even, As In All Bringing Forth. The Reward Is The Giving Birth To Something Living--something, That Is To Say, Which, By A Kind Of Magic, Makes A Living Unity Out Of Such Opposed Attributes As Orderliness And Spontaneity, Thought And Imagination, Solidity And Charm.

Order Means Light And Peace, Inward Liberty And Free Command Over One's Self; Order Is Power.

Action Is Coarsened Thought; Thought Becomes Concrete, Obscure, And Unconscious.

Will Localizes Us, Thought Universalizes Us.