“There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.”

“Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

“The point I am trying to make clear is the fact that if we are to see a resurgence of life and power in our beloved Society we must open the way for vital, kindling, inspiring persons to visit, or better still to live in, the communities where there are, or ought to be, meetings.”

“Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”

“The terror and emotional distress come like the brunt of the waves. But that's how life sways our thoughts and feelings. We cannot expect the sea to be calm forever. We must be prepared for the hurricane to come our way.”

“The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.”

“It must ever be borne in mind that the prime object of all fine arts is to please through some or other of the emotions which it stirs.”

“The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.”

“It must be remembered that after all in making a picture we are endeavoring to set down on one plane various objects in such a way as to suggest an infinitude of varying planes, and hence we are justified in selecting such conditions of nature as shall help us to give the impression of truthfulness, even though it be not in particular cases absolutely true to fact.”

“The role of art is to give food for thought, to act as a stimulant, to entice the onlooker to inspect things, people, emotions, from a new point of view.”