Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

Fairy tales are more than true.