Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.