Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.