One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.