The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.