Q1) Either I will find a way, or I will make one.


Q2) All things now held to be old were once new. What today we hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent.

Q3) In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

Q4) The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Q5) Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

Q6) Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Q7) If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Q8) The wooden wall is your ships.

Q9) He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overwhelming appetite to have it.