Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

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.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.