No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.