If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.