An Artist Cannot Fail; It Is A

We Are Born To Action And Whatever Is Capable Of Suggesting And Guiding Action Has Power Over Us From The First.

A Man May Lack Everything But Tact And Conviction And Still Be A Forcible Speaker; But Without These Nothing Will Avail... Fluency, Grace, Logical Order, And The Like, Are Merely The Decorative Surface Of Oratory.

The Idea That Seeing Life Means Going From Place To Place And Doing A Great Variety Of Obvious Things Is An Illusion Natural To Dull Minds.

An Artist Cannot Fail; It Is A Success To Be One.

It Happens From Time To Time In Every Complex And Active Society, That Certain Persons Feel The Complexity And Insistence As A Tangle, And Seek Freedom In Retirement, As Thoreau Sought At Walden Pond. They Do Not, However, In This Manner Escape From The Social Institutions Of Their Time, Nor Do They Really Mean To Do So; What They Gain, If They Are Successful, Is A Saner Relation To Them.