The officer of today has seen active service, it's true but as a matter of fact it is quite sufficient in war to have good health and no more imagina… - André Maurois

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualities that we most admire.

Must an artist live in the world or out of it? I believe this to be an unanswerable question. Total retirement, natural to the Saint, is injurious to most artists. They work marvelously so long as there are materials at hand. Goethe has further advice: "Solitude is a wonderful thing when one is at peace with oneself and when there is a definite task to be accomplished."

To work is to transform or move things or creatures in ways that will render them more useful or more beautiful; it is also to study the laws governing these transformations, formulate them or apply them.