Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.