People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Blame is safer than praise
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.