Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.