Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world