Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.