Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.