Art is the great stimulus to life.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.