You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.