If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.