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

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

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

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

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.

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

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.