Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.