Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.