All art is but imitation of nature.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.