What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.