“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”