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

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.