Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

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?

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

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

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.