But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.