Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6. 30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.