Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.