Quotes from John Russell

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.