I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

In charity there is no excess.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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

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.