Decency renders all things tolerable.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.