An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

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.