An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

God doesn't know things. He is things.