Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

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

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.