Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

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

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death