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

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.