Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.