Riches are for spending.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

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

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.