It is opposition that makes us productive.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.