An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.