I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

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.