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.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.