The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.