“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”

“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.”

“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”