Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

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

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.