There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.