The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

The Crab and Its Mother A crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother, and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it. The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept.

And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.

Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate, A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.

... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27

The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.