Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.