A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.