There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.