You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Not the why but the what.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.