A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits