Four
Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge—that is to say, a thinking person—can possibly have.
Five
That part of my life which I conduct by myself, without reference—or at any rate without direct reference—to others, I can usually manage in such a way that the gods do not positively weep at the spectacle thereof.
Six
It’s quite impossible to believe that a man is a genius, if you’ve been to school with him, or even known his father.
Seven
It is the privilege of only the greatest painters not to put letters on the corners of their pictures in order to keep other painters from taking the credit for them afterwards.
Eight
Your own mind has the power to transmute every external phenomenon to its own purposes.