A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.