Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.