Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

Time is the greatest innovator.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.