Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.