The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.