The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with 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.

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.