People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

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

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.