Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.