If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.