With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.