The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

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

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.