It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

Great men have always had dogs.