States, as great engines, move slowly.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.