The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.