Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.