It is natural to die as to be born.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.