Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

No man knows himself as an original.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future!

Just as well then that kings did not grow old.

Start each day out the holy way..with Christ Chex, it's a miracle in a bowl. Just open the box and you hear AHHHHH....and then a lil' angel flies out and says 'good morning, life is beautiful!'.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

It’s just a cookie, sweetheart.

If the art is concealed, it succeeds.