I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes yo…