This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

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