The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.