Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.