There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

The past is not what it was.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.