Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Love is a fault; so be it.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.