On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.