Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.