Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

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