The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.