Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.