Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. - John Galsworthy

Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Art is that imaginative expression of human energy, which, through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion. And the greatest Art is that which excites the greatest impersonal emotion in an hypothecated perfect human being.