Life too near paralyses art.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
To fill the hour – that is happiness.
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
We are prisoners of ideas.
I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
Have wholesome, but not costly Food, and be rather cleanly than dainty in ordering it.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
