Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!

Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over–educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well–informed man—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well–informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric–à–brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over–educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for ...