Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.