I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

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