In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.