All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.