He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
States, as great engines, move slowly.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.