The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.