"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."
"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."