To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!