There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Are kids such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. 

This is a world of action, and not for mopping and drowning in.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.  

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

There are books of which the bags and covers are by far the best parts.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.