Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Don’t be too comfortable with employment discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong.

I believe in permanent revolution.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.