If you can talk about it, why paint it?

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

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

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!