While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.