Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.