The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.