Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds. less than 1 minute read
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. less than 1 minute read
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. less than 1 minute read
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. less than 1 minute read
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be. less than 1 minute read
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. less than 1 minute read
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. less than 1 minute read
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. less than 1 minute read
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. less than 1 minute read
