Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

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

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

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.