Patches are a nun's jewels.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

Yield all and trust all.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

To get rich is glorious.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.