Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.