Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.