If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.