Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

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

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.