Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely. - Samuel Butler

There are two classes, those who want to know and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.