Riches are for spending.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.