Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.