You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.