The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.