In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

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

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.