It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.