Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Every beginning is cheerful.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.