Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.