Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.