But of works of art little can be said.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.