Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.