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

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

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

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

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.

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

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.