It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
He who can copy can do.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.