Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

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.