Genius-worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.