A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

Wine to me is all about sharing.

When the customer makes contact, he does not want a quote. He wants a commitment.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.