The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, 

it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations 

that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Joy is not in things;

 it is in us.

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; 

he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, 

there is a quantity that has optimum value. 

Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. 

To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Life is like a box of sardines 

and we are all looking for the key.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, 

not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly 

is to fill the world with fools.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.