Fancy Tortures More People Than Does Reality

Familiarity Is A Magician That Is Cruel To Beauty But Kind To Ugliness.

Coleridge Cried; "o God, How Glorious It Is To Live!" Renan Asks, "o God, When Will It Be Worth While To Live?" In Nature We Echo The Poet; In The World We Echo The Thinker.

Emulation Is Active Virtue; Envy Is Brooding Malice.

There Is No Knife That Cuts So Sharply And With Such Poisoned Blade As Treachery.

Nature I Believe In. True Art Aims To, Represent Men And Women, Not As My Little Self Would Have Them, But As They Appear. My Heroes And Heroines I Want Not Extreme Types, All Good Or All Bad; But Human, Mortal--partly Good, Partly Bad. Realism I Need. Pure Mental Abstractions Have No Significance For Me.