Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which for two months every other year new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.