We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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

By far the best proof is experience.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.