Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.