Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.