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.

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

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.