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

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

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

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.