Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.