Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.

Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

Could he hear my heart pounding?

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?