Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.