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

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.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.