A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.