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.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.