Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.