The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.