Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.