Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.