I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to...
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
