The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.