They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

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.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.