Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

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

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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

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.