In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.