“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”

“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

“The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life.”

“All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible”

“There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.”

“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who has not learned to write, the painter who has not learned to paint, and the impression that has not learned to express itself--all of which are compatible with an immensity of genius in the inexpressible soul.”

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.”