In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

New arts destroy the old.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.