We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.