to everything there is an end - except fear.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.