Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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