Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.