The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.