That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.