One Should Never Criticize His Own Work

Life Is A Theatre Of Alarms And Contentions.

A Strange And Somewhat Impassive Physiognomy Is Often, Perhaps, An Advantage To An Orator, Or Leader Of Any Sort, Because It Helps To Fix The Eye And Fascinate The Mind.

There Is Nothing Less To Our Credit Than Our Neglect Of The Foreigner And His Children, Unless It Be The Arrogance Most Of Us Betray When We Set Out To "americanize" Him.

In The Days Of Witchcraft It Used To Be Believed That If One Person Secretly Made A Waxen Image Of Another And Stuck Pins Into The Image, Its Counterpart Would Suffer Tortures, And That If The Image Was Melted The Person Would Die. This Superstition Is Almost Realized In The Relation Between The Private Self And Its Social Reflection. They Seem To Separate But Are Darkly United, And What Is Done To The One Is Done To The Other.

An Artist Cannot Fail; It Is A Success To Be One.