Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.