To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

I know...and I love you. But I don't think we love each other in the same way. And...I think keeping you near me, would destroy me.

She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.

Black love is black wealth

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I'm a warrior for light.