The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right not from policy.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.