I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.