Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get.

As I once said of George Bernard Shaw, he bloomed at twenty, but nobody smelled him till he was forty.

Ah that blessed degree that stamps us for life as creatures of guaranteed intellectual worth.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

The dog is a Yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a Yes-man.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Experience is wine, and art is the brandy we distill from it.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Biography at its best is a form of fiction.