Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.