Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.