Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.