Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.