The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.