How to win and lose

“Mrs. (Isabella Stewart) Gardner in White’’ (1922), by John Singer Sargent. 

“Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.’’

— Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), American art collector, philanthropist, and patroness of the arts. She founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, which has a spectacular collection, though slightly less so after the world’s greatest art theft, in 1990. Its perpetrators have not been caught.