Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

This world belongs to the energetic.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well,…