To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.