Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.