All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

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

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.