People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.