It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."