Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.