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

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

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

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.