One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.