Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.