There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it - do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

'There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And thoug…

It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far …

Doing good is the only religion.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit w…