Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.