We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.