It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.