The Great Obstacle To Progress Is Prejudice

To No Circumstance Is The Wide Diffusion Of Error In The World More Owing Than To Our Habit Of Adopting Conclusions From Insufficiently Established Data. An Indispensable Preliminary, Then, In Every Investigation, Is To Get At Facts. Until These Are Arrived At, Every Opinion, Theory, Or System, However Ingeniously Framed, Must Necessarily Rest Upon An Uncertain Basis.

The Trouble With Men Of Sense Is That They Are So Dreadfully In Earnest All The While.

In Art There Are Two Principal Schools Between Which Each Aspirant Has To Choose--one Distinguished By Its Close Adherence To Nature, And The Other By Its Strenuous Efforts To Get Above It.

Excellence In Art Is Largely The Result Of Attention To Minutiae, And--prayer.

Partial Culture Runs To The Ornate, Extreme Culture To Simplicity.