All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.