We can only obey our own polarity.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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