1- When the soul of man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
2- Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.
3- To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, and from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and color which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art.
4- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
5- That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
6- I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.