religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Tomorrow looked a lot better yesterday

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?