From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.