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

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

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.