Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.