If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead