To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

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.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.