Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.