A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

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.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.