Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.