I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

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.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.