Party politics is now a real farce.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

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

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

We must have a passion in life.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.