Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.