It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.