The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

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.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.