The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.