All writing comes by the grace of God.

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future