If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.