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

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.