War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.