Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.