The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.