A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. 629
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. 767
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 666
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it. 609