The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.