The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Years do not always make age.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.