Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.

Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced.

I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.