Will Christian

Will Christian
beauty art charm
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
art school two
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.
self worst delusion
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
may rich economy
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
beauty eye half
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
evil way poverty
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
men dreamer half
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
adventure men particular
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.
ambition voice keys
Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.
ambition progress aim
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.
art style taste
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.
art prayer excellence
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
laziness may disease
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
miracle christ stills
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.