“Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.”

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

However, up to the present stage in human history,

The traffic, however, was usually the other way.

It’s bad writing, however naturalistic it’s written, that’s where you have to do your best acting.

On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.