Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.