Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.