Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.