“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about”

“All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly”

““Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing”

“An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains”

“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”