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

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

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

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.