Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.