Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love