You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

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

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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

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

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.

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