It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.