We can take no credit for our gifts. It’s what we do with them that matters.

It's the odious, insufferable people who usually get to the top.

The perfect diamond has many facets. It's almost never that the same hand cuts them all.

The artist who cannot conquer difficulties is not going to be much of a success.

The miraculous is the least one must aim at.

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.

We can take no credit for our gifts. It's what we do with them that matters.

Industry without talent is useless. Talent without industry is exasperating. The two together can make an artist.

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.