Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Art needs no spur beyond itself.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.