"In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color"

“Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.”

“Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…”

“Do your best... really that's all you can ask for from an athlete.”

“So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.”

Source : Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker”, p.416

“She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.”

“Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”

“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”

Source : from a note author wrote down on his return from Paris as quoted in "Expressionism" by Wolf-Dieter Dube, 1973, p. 126, 1907.

“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”