Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.