We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.