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

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

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.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.