All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.
Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.