"Intelligence is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes."

-Voltaire

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

(Pearl S. Buck)

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which
kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

-Washington Irving

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it."

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

"Drawing is not the same as form."

(Edgar Degas)