As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.