I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. 798
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. 1.01K
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. 880
I no doubt deserved my eneI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.mies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. 1.08K
Women sit or move to and fro, some old and some young. The young are beautiful – but the old are more beautiful than the young. 2.61K
