It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
"I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events."
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.