We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.