Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

I think like, 'And we have some problems here on the earth we worry about? Compared to likenothing. Just be happy. Don't worry be happy right now

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.