Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Consider Others as Yourself.

My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.