The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

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 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.

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

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