The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.