The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.