But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.