The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.