With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
The living have never shown me how to live.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.