My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.