Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.