The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.