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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.