Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.