“The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”

“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.”

“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”

“The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.”

“Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.”

“The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.”