With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.