All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Reading maketh a full man.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.