Great Throughts Treasury

"Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world."

"Character must stand behind and back up everything - the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it."

"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power."

"Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may."

"There is a broad distinction between character and reputation, for one may be destroyed by slander, while the other can never be harmed, save by its possessor. Reputation is in no man's keeping. You and I cannot determine what other men shall think and say about us. We can only determine what they ought to think of us and say about us."