When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.