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.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.