Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.