• Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

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

• One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

• When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

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

• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.