National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.