People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.