No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.