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

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

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

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.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.