Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.