It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I accept the universe!

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.