I never saw a problem that I did not attempt to solve by mechanical means.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

The work is always in conversation with other works.

To understand the mind, follow its practical consequences.

The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.