Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

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

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.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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

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.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.