There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Work first, and then rest.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.