Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.