Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Time is a waste of money.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.