What is the result?
There is more imagination in any number of a penny journal than in half-a-dozen of the Royal Academy rooms in the season.

No author can live by his work and be as empty-headed as an average successful painter.

Again, consider our implements of music--our pianofortes, for example.

Nobody but an acrobat will voluntarily spend years at such a difficult mechanical puzzle as the keyboard, and so we have to take our impressions of Beethoven's sonatas from acrobats who vie with each other in the rapidity of their prestos, or the staying power of their left wrists.

Thoughtful men will not spend their lives acquiring sleight-of-hand.