I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.