Nineteen
The most beautiful things, and the most vital things, and the most lasting things are often mysterious and inexplicable and sudden.
Twenty
An accurate knowledge of any subject, coupled with a carefully nurtured sense of the relativity of that subject to other subjects, implies an enormous self-development.
Twenty-one
The great artist may force you to laugh, or to wipe away a tear, but he accomplishes these minor feats by the way. What he mainly does is to see for you. If, in presenting a scene, he does not disclose aspects of it which you would not have observed for yourself, then he falls short of success. In a physical and psychical sense power is visual, the power of an eye seeing things always afresh, virginally as though on the very morn of creation.
Twenty-two
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same god-like and superior impartiality.
Twenty-three
He who speaks, speaks twice. His words convey his thoughts, and his tone conveys his mental attitude towards the person spoken to.