The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.