A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

The artist is called a creator.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.