There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.