To think of shadows is a serious thing.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!