There are two things in the painter the eye and the mind, each of them should aid the other.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

Thug Life to me is dead.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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