The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

By indignities men come to dignities.