Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Next to love is the desire for love.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.