Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Columbus gave the world another world.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.