Never run away from anything. Never!

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

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne