If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try.
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.