Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.