Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.