I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.

The heart that loves is always young.

If your ship doesn't come in, you have to row out to meet it.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

But above all things truth is victor.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Feed you faith and your doubts will starve to death!

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I don't need your attitude I have one of my own.

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die.

The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. .

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.