Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.