What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.