Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.