“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Then I said, “I covet truth;Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat;I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Whatever limits us,we call Fate”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.”

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”