An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of sc…

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.