Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

Drawing is the true test of art.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.