The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.

One may receive the information but miss the teaching.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.