There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.