It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.