In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.