Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.