Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful rarely comfortable and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

For what the horse does under compulsion as Simon also observes is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

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.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare so attend and observe.

You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

If there was an observer on Mars they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

But if you observe children learning in their first few years of life you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl walk talk and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature and especially the ordering of nature it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Observe record tabulate communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see learn to hear learn to feel learn to smell and know that by practice alone you can become expert.