The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.
I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.