The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.